MATLAB programming is a technical language used to solve mathematical problems. MATLAB stands for ‘Matrix Laboratory’, and it was developed by MathWorks. It combines numeric computation, graphics processing, and high-level programming languages into an integrated computing environment.
MATLAB programming is composed of several basic elements that make up the language’s structure: variables, functions, control statements. In this blog post I am going to discuss each of these elements in more detail.
Variables are storage locations that contain variable values or constant numbers referred to as objects. Variables are the core data entities which can take on different values during a program execution process.
Functions are predefined operations that allow us to perform a variety of tasks in a MATLAB program. A function can be called from anywhere within a program; only its name needs to be passed in order to invoke it.
Control statements like if-else blocks help us modify the flow of the program based on certain conditions specified by directly writing them inside the codebase or through associated variables.
Input & output operations like reading text files from disk or creating variable outputs define how interactive programs and scripts behave accordingly with various required inputs from either the user’s terminal or auxiliary input systems like databases & APIs .
MATLAB has a powerful plotting functionality that allows you to create different types of graphs and visualisations. You can use the plot function for 2D line plots, the surf function for 3D surface plots, or the scatter function for scatter plots.
MATLAB offers various operators that can be used to perform mathematical operations on matrices and arrays. These operators can be arithmetic, logical, or relational.